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Set 10 – Five New Words for Nov 10

1. The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word. For example, the change in pronunciation of knife from (k-nyf) to (nyf) or the use of ’til for until.

2. A method in which blood is drawn from a donor, one or more blood components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells) are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion.

USAGE:

“Williams gives the Narragansett word in full [poquauhock], though common usage reduced it and Anglicized it through apheresis [to quahog].”

“He had quartered in Memphis with Cynthia for weeks, giving over his stem cells through apheresis.”

2. syncope (SING-kuh-pee)

MEANING: noun:

1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn’t or Worcester to Wooster.

2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.

USAGE:

“There were important books on vowel syncope in Greek and Indo-European.”

“‘I’m no doctor, but they say I just fainted,’ said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode.”

3. aspirate (verb: AS-puh-rayt, noun: AS-puhr-it)]

MEANING:

verb tr.:

1. To pronounce a sound with an exhalation of breath.
2. To pronounce the h sound at the beginning of a word as (hwich) for which.
3. To inhale something (such as a fluid) into the lungs, as after throwing up.
4. To draw a fluid from a body cavity by suction.

noun:

1. The sound represented by h.
2. A speech sound followed by an audible puff of breath.
3. The matter removed from a body cavity by suction.